My Vista 64 bit OS has been acting a little flaky for a long time. The latest symptom was my DHCP client not working. When Dell did the free motherboard swap upgrade, I was supposed to re-install the OS then. But I procrastinated and just waited till the pain got bad. My XPS 700720 came [...]
So they want us to leave or what?
From the UK Timesonline website: The remarks appeared to boost Mr Obama but left the White House and the McCain campaign with a dilemma. The Republican candidate’s representatives found themselves in the extraordinary position of implying that the Iraqis did not really mean what they were saying. Iraq: we want US troops out in two [...]
Flickr Firefox 3 problem
Update: I re-installed Vista 64 cleanly (wiped out everything) and I am using the Nvidia video drivers from Microsoft. Flickr is still misbehaving on FireFox 3 for me. On the upside, adding these lines to Adblock Plus’s whitelist did fix my problems with Facebook: —————— On some of the installations I have, Firefox 3 and [...]
Cast of 300 advise Obama on foreign policy?
This! Is! FORIEGN POLICY! Before coffee I was sure that Senator Obama was getting advice from Frank Miller.
Now they try talking
The President of Iran is a nut. But apparently our government now realizes that sometimes we have to speak with nuts to move things along. It worked with North Korea, wonder what took them so long?
One day limo driver
This morning Lily was going to head to LaGuardia airport and catch a plane to Detroit. I was going to head to the office at my regular time and put in a fully productive day at the office. The person who was going to pick her up forgot. I ended up getting dressed in record [...]
WordPress 2.6 (SVN copy not latest.tar.gz)
Well I ripped the band-aid off and did the upgrade. It feels like 2.5.5 or something, not as big a deal as 2.3 to 2.5 was. I keep almost all of my files in wp-content so upgrading was not difficult. I shut down my web server, renamed the old directory for the blog root, and [...]
